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Adam Ant is a British post-punk, new wave artist. He was the lead singer of Adam & the Ants until their split in early 1982, by which time they had recorded three studio albums. Ant, however, would go solo, and release an additional five studio albums throughout the 1980s and early 1990s (one other album recorded during this period remains ...
- Adam Ant Albums: Dirk Wears White Sox
- Adam Ant Albums: Kings of The Wild Frontier
- Adam Ant Albums: Prince Charming
- Adam Ant Albums: Friend Or Foe
- Adam Ant Albums: Strip
- Adam Ant Albums: Vive Le Rock
- Adam Ant Albums: Manners & Physique
- Adam Ant Albums: Wonderful
- Adam Ant Albums: …Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter
- Adam Ant Albums: Persuasion
Released 1979 Label Do It Chart positions UK No.16 US – In some ways, Adam And The Ants’ Dirk Wears White Soxis a classic punk debut album. From other viewpoints – including Adam Ant’s – it’s not really punk or even a debut album at all. It was released on indie label Do It, founded by Pop Muzikhitmaker Robin Scott (aka M) and future Yello manager ...
Released 1980 Label CBS Chart positions UK No.1 US No.44 As if the critical panning of Dirk Wears White Soxwasn’t enough to contend with, Malcolm McLaren stealing the Adam And The Ants lineup to form Annabella Lwin’s backing band in Bow Wow Wow really should have finished Adam as a cult hero. It did. Instead, Adam decided to become the biggest pop ...
Released 1981 Label CBS Chart positions UK No.2 US No.94 Having conquered the nation against all rational laws of pop, Adam Ant wasn’t about to let stardom fall from his grasp. The trouble was, CBS’ brutal contract meant an album absolutely had to be released every year. His head giddy at the reality of stardom, it was a minor miracle that Adam was...
Released 1982 Label CBS Chart positions UK No.5 US No.16 There’s no great drama behind Adam And The Ants’ split. Prince Charmingwas rushed, yet there was no let up in needing another album a year later. There was no time for a break, so they had to end when Chris Hughes was offered to produce Tears For Fears and Gary Tibbs wanted to return to sessi...
Released 1983 Label CBS Chart positions UK No.20 US No.65 The moment where CBS’ hamster wheel fell off its moorings, Stripis the weakest Adam Ant album. Whereas early Adam And The Ants explored alternative BDSM sexuality and recent albums had deployed a seaside postcard humour, Adam’s love of Benny Hill went into overdrive on Strip. Songs like Libe...
Released 1985 Label CBS Chart positions UK No.42 US No.131 There’s a large sense of injustice surrounding Vive Le Rockfor most Adam Ant fans. Striphad stalled at No.20 in the UK and No.65 in the US. Finally given a relatively long break, Adam released Vive Le Rockin September 1985, 22 months after Strip. Having tried a dance-pop sound there, Vive L...
Released 1990 Label MCA Chart positions UK No.19 US No.57 Although it was five years before Adam Ant released another studio album after Vive Le Rock, half of Manners & Physique was written immediately after its predecessor, which explains the familiarly punky, pugilistic air of Anger Inc and USSA. The delay was due to Adam becoming an actor. Wanti...
Released 1995 Label EMI Chart positions UK No.24 US No.143 In which Adam Ant decides to grow up for a bit… Although Wonderfularrived five years afterManners & Physique, the unreleased Persuasionwas influential in between on the genesis of Adam’s eighth official album. Former Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy, a friend of Marco Pirroni from touring together i...
Released 2013 Label Blueback Hassar Chart positions UK No.25 US – It was 18 years after Wonderfulbefore a new Adam Ant album in 2013. Adam took five years out to raise daughter Lily, living in the Tennessee mountains. On returning to England, his mental health suffered. Adam felt flatlined by drugs prescribed for bipolar disorder, before a sympathe...
Released n/a Label MCA Chart positions UK – US – A sad tale of record company stupidity, Persuasionremains unreleased 30 years after it was recorded as the follow-up to Manners & Physique. Going through financial difficulties, MCA refused to release Persuasionin 1992 because Manners & Physiquehadn’t gone gold. OK. So why has MCA stubbornly refused ...
After this came a band called The B-Sides. He gained popularity as the lead singer of post-punk group Adam And The Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three No. 1s.
Since 2010, Ant has continued his music career, recording and releasing a new album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter (2013, UK number 25), and completing eight full-length UK national tours, five US national tours, and two Australian tours.
He was thrown in at the deep end as within two months of joining the band they had recorded their second BBC Peel session (Zerox, Friends, You’re So Physical & Cleoptra) and had signed to Decca Records for a one year deal.
Sep 9, 2021 · Top 20 Adam Ant Songs – Goody Two Shoes 5 Dog Eat Dog (1980) A thrilling mix of Burundi drums, Spaghetti Western guitars and ominous chanting, this was the opener to the band’s second album (and the first with the classic line-up).
In 1982, Ant went solo, later giving the reason that the band was ‘exhausted’. He found immediate international success with his first two solo albums. Several singles, including"Goody Two ...
